Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 23, 2022

photo taken by Adrian Cockcroft After a long career working at the leading edge of technology, I retire from full time work on June 3rd 2022. I joined Amazon in October 2016, as a VP in AWS Marketing focused on building relationships with customers. What Adrian Did Next?—?Retire Retire Moonrise?—?photo

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, we will introduce speech and music detection as an enabling technology for a variety of audio applications in Film & TV, as well as introduce our speech and music activity detection (SMAD) system which we recently published as a journal article in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2021

To mitigate security risks, comply with regulations, and align with good governance requires a coordinated effort among people, processes, and technology. “To meet those challenges,” Stewart explained, “a holistic approach is required that combines cultural transformation between people, processes, and technology.

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. In fact, most (if not all) of those terms are present on any technology website you visit. Everything you wanted to know appeared first on Dynatrace blog. Dynatrace news. Observability, OpenTracing, and OpenTelemetry.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

These are just a few of the open-source technologies you may encounter as you research observability solutions for managing complex multicloud IT environments and the services that run on them. In fact, these technologies have become so prevalent that anybody who may not know the full scope of the topic may be afraid to ask.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2010, Netflix introduced a technology to switch production software instances off at random — like setting a monkey loose in a server room — to test how the cloud handled its services. appeared first on Dynatrace blog. Thus, the tool Chaos Monkey was born. Chaos Engineer at Gremlin. Listen to podcast!

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g.,

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

by Guillaume du Pontavice, Phill Williams and Kylee Peña (on behalf of our Streaming Algorithms, Audio Algorithms, and Creative Technologies teams) Remember the epic opening sequence of Stranger Things 2 ? Adaptive streaming is a technology designed to deliver media to the user in the most optimal way for their network connection.

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Simform

AUGUST 2, 2021

It was during the cold January of 2016 that Google Nest Smart Thermostat had one of the epic software failures - talk about being unlucky! The post A QA Manager’s Guide to Software Testing Methodologies appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. H owever, OpenTelemetry is one of the most popular projects in the entire CNCF ecosystem with a lot of support from the entire technology community. . Everything you wanted to know appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

bpftrace has most of DTrace's capabilities and more. ## bpftrace The prior work that led to [bpftrace] (aka BPFtrace) is discussed my earlier [DTrace for Linux 2016] post, which explains how the Linux kernel gained [eBPF]: the virtual machine that we're using to run tracing programs. bcc is powerful but laborious to program.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Canada has set forth a bold innovation agenda grounded in entrepreneurship, scientific research, growing small and medium-sized businesses with a focus on environmentally friendly technologies, and the transition to a digital economy. Par Werner Vogels, le 8 décembre 2016. Scalability.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

To my best knowledge, even though the term NPU was first mentioned in a MICRO 2012 paper by Hadi Esmaeilzadeh et al. , the first commercial product named after NPU in industry is from Vimicro in 2016. In 2016, Dji, a China’s drone company, integrates Myriad2 in its products PHANTOM 4 and Mavic Pro.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

Today we are introducing the new Basic Installer experience for SQL Server 2016 Express , SQL Server 2016 Developer , and SQL Server 2016 Evaluation Editions. We actually launched this functionality for SQL Server 2016 Express Edition when SQL Server 2016 RTM was announced but didn’t really promote this.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 31, 2023

From a career point of view, I was looking for a change and decided to get out of the business of selling computers to big companies and figure out consumer oriented technology at eBay. It was a great opportunity to explore new technologies and broaden my experience. That’s going to take more than one blog post to summarize…

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Check out her writing about business and technology on her own site at rachelandrew.co.uk , and follow her on Twitter @ rachelandrew , where she tweets about CSS, tech topics, and much more. All together, she has written 23 books as a solo or co-author since 2002. Jake Archibald. Jake Archibald. Jake Archibald. ” Paul Calvano.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Ten years ago, when the mobile handset wars were in full swing, I wrote a blog analyzing the differences among the leaders in the space. RIM exited the handset business in 2016. iOS and Android were well positioned to create and exploit the change in human interaction with technology. Neither strategy paid off.

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Testsigma

AUGUST 24, 2021

bn in 2016. PC: Technology vector created by stories – www.freepik.com. Blog image credit: Creative vector created by stories – www.freepik.com. appeared first on Testsigma Blog. Some stats to prove that (according to Statista here and here ): 1. 54.18% of the global internet traffic is driven by mobile.

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Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

bpftrace has most of DTrace's capabilities and more. ## bpftrace The prior work that led to [bpftrace] (aka BPFtrace) is discussed my earlier [DTrace for Linux 2016] post, which explains how the Linux kernel gained [eBPF]: the virtual machine that we're using to run tracing programs. bcc is powerful but laborious to program.

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

When it comes to web content, you can easily find what you need through many different paths, from search engines and social media to playlists and blogs, jumping from one source to another with just a tap of a finger. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. Time is Money.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 28, 2021

Making it Work While tech workers are well suited for remote work (savvy with communications technologies) there are benefits with office work, and I don't think remote work is for everyone. The entire project was run via emails, a Google drive, and Google docs, and was delivered to the publisher on time. once a quarter) for meetings.

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Testsigma

MAY 21, 2021

Nonetheless, Protractor is not able to leverage such technology without forcing users to rewrite their tests. Because of its increasing popularity and usage, Google rewrote and rereleased it in 2016. Nonetheless, Protractor is not able to leverage such technology without forcing users to rewrite their tests.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

SQL Server 2016 ‘It Just Runs Faster’ A bold statement that any SQL Server professional can stand behind with confidence. Try SQL Server 2016 Today. You can take advantage of this effort packaged in SQL Server 2016. SQL 2016 supports 3X more physical memory than previous versions. – [link].

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 5, 2017

As Slava highlights in his recent blog post , he also contacted me in early 2015 to assist with supportability of SQL Server on Linux. It became very exciting to learn about the new technology and how we would expand the product I know and love. By March of 2016 Slava had convinced me to join the team.

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The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

I started writing “ Serverless Architectures ” in May 2016. two ideas that I think are very useful when we’re using technology as rapidly deployable as Serverless ones. I thought a few folks might be interested. Finally, of course, there’s the community section.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Mike Gualtieri of Forrester Research, who coined the term NoOps , once said in his blog post, “NoOps means that application developers will never have to speak with an operations professional again.”. This means organizations can’t be restricted to a single cloud technology.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2016, O’Reilly published “ Designing For Sustainability ” by Tim Frick. Particularly good examples here are Brad Frost’s side-project, “ Death To B t ”, Heydon Pickering’s articles and talks about writing less damn code , and Adam Silver’s blog post, “ Designing For Actual Performance.”. We should use HTTP2 over HTTPS.

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SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The rapid acceleration in technology brought on a new discovery and paradigm. The result is a design for SQL Server 2016 that provides high availability for the most demanding workloads on the latest hardware with minimal impact and scalable for the future. See more in this blog post. one without a replica). Want to dive deeper?

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 16, 2017

I previously wrote about Netflix in [2015] and [2016], and if you are interested in what it's like to work here, I already covered much in those posts. As before, no one at Netflix has asked me to write this, and this is my personal blog and not a company post. eBPF]: /blog/2016-10-27/dtrace-for-linux-2016.html

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Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile. With the end of 2021, we are here after careful analysis of the market trend and the latest prioritised technologies that we believe will be important in the future.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2019

Private synthetic browser monitors use the same ActiveGate technology that our private synthetic HTTP monitors are based on, providing the following benefits: Automatic failover support. LTS, Red Hat server 7 and CentOS server 7 for the execution of private browser monitors; Windows Server 2016 support is coming soon as well.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

LTS (April 2016). I wrote about it in a previous post, [DTrace for Linux 2016]. I wrote a page on it: [perf]. - **eBPF**: tracing features completed in 2016, this provides efficient programmatic tracing to existing kernel frameworks. The hardest part on Linux is now done: kernel support. It's the official profiler.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

With Luminary’s 21 years of experience in the digital space, my experience of 17 years in the CMS space as well as our focus on Headless since 2016, here are my two cents on what you should look out for. For example, if the CMS is built on Microsoft’s.NET Framework, the front-end website would also be built on the same technology.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud.

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Back in 2016, Neelan Choksi (Tasktop President & COO) was encouraging me to write a book summarizing my learnings from the hundreds of customer meetings I had done in the previous year. The post Reflections from a Year of Project to Product appeared first on Tasktop Blog.

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Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Since Frances and I published a blog post last year introducing Progressive Web Apps , a healthy conversation has started about what is and isn’t a PWA. Instead, this article focuses on the strictest common criteria to ensure broad installability as of late 2016. Proprietary and legacy technologies (e.g.,

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

If you have been paying attention to the technology press over the past 12-18 months, you may have noticed a rather large number of negative stories about Intel's processor business. Intel has been stuck at 14nm in the server space since the Broadwell release in Q4 of 2016. So, what has changed my mind? The Death of Tick-Tock.

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